I was playing chess on my phone, so I didn't catch the French wreckage, but as soon as I saw the pregnant belly, I said "Rousseau." My Lost party-mates thought it was impressive. :-)

I knew as soon as I saw the dude floating in the water that it was Jin. Happy Dance!

Maybe it's my pregnancy brain, but I can't keep up this season. I am so confused by what's going on.

Ben is evil. Always has been.

And Jack isn't fooled. He's using Ben b/c he knows he needs to get back to rescue everybody else. He's tricking Ben into thinking Jack thinks he's on their side.

That's how BRILLIANT Jack is!

JIN!!!!!

Firstly, let me say how pleased I am with LOST this season. So good.

My guess is that Desmond is on his way to LA and, in about three episodes, the Oceanic 6, along with Des, Penny, Lockesicle, Chollllie? Aaron? will be on their way to the island. Ben can't go back, right?

What we're missing right now is Bentham. Doesn't Locke interact with everyone before dying? That puzzle piece is a-missin'.

There's nothing too crazy about this particular episode. Miles and Juliet are now nose-bleeders. Why isn't Faraday? He tried to correlate time on the island with strength of illness. Because Sawyer and Locke have only been on the island three months, they'll be the last to get sick? But where does CS Lewis fit? Miles? And we saw Faraday by da bomb a couple of eps ago - was that time travel Faraday or "1970s I don't age" Faraday?

This is all crazy. Is it weird to think that the season is already 25% over? WE JUST GOT STARTED. Four Episodes down, thirteen to go.

Bill - no one has changed the past yet. We have never seen those proto-others that are dying - so who is to say they weren't dead all along? Jin will disappear with the next time flash, so he hasn't changed anything, etc.

What we're missing right now is Bentham. Doesn't Locke interact with everyone before dying? That puzzle piece is a-missin'.

I was wondering about that too. Alpert(?) seems pretty convinced that Locke has to be the one to get everyone back to the island. But so far we haven't seen him doing much of anything except looking pale. I think what we haven't seen is Locke convincing Jack that they must go back. And now Jack and Ben getting the others on board. But I still don't see how it was crucial that Locke leave the island.

OK, if you're "not allowed to change anything" in the past, how come everything's changing in the past...

If you believe what Farraday said, then you have to think that it always happened that way. Anyone remember if Rousseau shows any recognition of Jin when they first meet?

For a second, before I realized when they were, I thought that might have been Charlie instead of Jin. Now that would have been cool.

OK, if you're "not allowed to change anything" in the past, how come everything's changing in the past. There are proto-others being killed in the past, shipwrecked future-people (Jin) being discovered by French scientists in the past, etc. I don't think that rule means what they think it means.

Well, it could be that time is stuck, and that they were always meant to go back in time. Locke says, "Come visit me." Alpert goes. Alpert went to see Locke "before" Locke ever went back in time to tell tell him. It might also explain why the Others seemed so ready for company when the plane crashed. They've been hearing all these stories of strange people coming to the island, saying they're from the future and talking about a plane crash. When we watched the plane crash at the beginning of Season 3, it wasn't as if they knew exactly what was going to happen, but looking back, it's as if they were thinking, "Is this really it?"

For all we know, Rousseau may very well have a vague memory of meeting a Korean man on the beach that day. The others that lived may all remember their friends being killed that day.

In the Back to the Future model, Marty McFly goes back and changes everything. We haven't yet seen a butterfly effect or anything like that. The future (or present) seems pretty stable.

It might help to not think of time as present, past, and future. They are unstuck, but what happens, happens and always has happened. Always will.

Up to this point, that's how I've tried to think about it. Then again, Desmond woke up "suddenly remembering" the thing about Farraday's mother. Can't be sure what that means.

For a second, before I realized when they were, I thought that might have been Charlie instead of Jin. Now that would have been cool.

Now that would have been very cool. But I think it being Jin is even cooler. I'm so stinkin' happy that Jin is still alive. I want Sun to put down her gun and become the Sun we once knew, and Jin, Sun and their baby to live happily ever after. If that's all that ends up happening in this show, I'll be happy.

Man, Sun does have a dark side, doesn't she?

Molly - I don't think Cholly is Charlotte, mainly because I'm pretty sure that's a little boy.

I think it's very highly likely that Ellie (the chick with the rifle in Alpert-camp) is Daniel's mom (eloise). I read a theory today that she is also Widmore's sister. Which would be yet another connection, and also might explain why Charles Widmore was supporting the health care of Daniel Farraday's unstuck in time girlfriend.

Yeah, I think Cholly is a boy. And I don't believe Desmond's last name is Lewis. (Do we know it?)

I thought it was a good ep.
But, I don't think we can go back to season 1 and look to see if anything was weird, cause at that time the writers didn't even know all this would happen. Ya know?

I don't know. I try not to think about it too much.

You spelled it right. It's in keeping with Lost's apparent obsession with Enlightenment philosophers.

Yeah - the body was left with her. When I wrote "what we're missing is Bentham" I referred to the gap in the story. We don't yet know how he got off the island, communicated with everyone and got whacked.

As far as gangsta-Sun is concerned, we saw a glimpse of it when she paid off Jin's blackmailing mama. Remember? She said, after paying her off, "Jin thinks your dead, don't force me to make that a reality!" Then she shot her this crazy "I'm-a gonna kill you" look that I hadn't seen before and is back.

Thinking further upon this episode, they're making Ben's character a little less cool and a lot more ethereal. It's gone past "I know what you don't know" to "I'm controlling everything about all of your lives" and I really don't like it. What was cool about Benry Gale on the island was his struggle to control everything. Sometimes he won and sometimes he lost. They also did well to play up the question of who, exactly, was this guy. Even when they did his flashback ep that explained how he had gotten to the island and his work thereafter, they still left the question of who he was in relation to the Others, Jacob, etc. open to question.

We still don't know everything about him. For example, what is his relation to Eloise? What are they doing? Who are they with? But this isn't being played up, as much. What happened to "We're the good guys, Michael"

Another question:
Who do you think Aaron will end up with? Let's make this a two-parter.
Who will end up with Aaron after the next few shows?
Who will end up with Aaron at the show's finale?

My guess: Aaron will end up with Claire's mom who oh-so-conveniently happens to be in the City of Angels.
Aaron will end up with Claire when she returns home, however that happens.

It kind of bugs us how Kate keeps calling Aaron "her son". Flashbacks of Michael's constant, "Give me back my son!"
The part where Sawyer saw Claire giving birth was sort of cheesy to me; The film looked grainy from the past; it just didn't seem real seamless--I could tell it was just an old show pieced in, it didn't seem like he was actually watching it.
One last complaint: Using a different actress for young Rousseau was absurd! You don't change that much in 20 years.
Besides the above I thought it was the best show of the season so far. I'm liking how Sayid is always Kung-Fuing his way around. I couldn't believe it when Jack just doy-oy-oy, walked away from the room, leaving him in possible danger. Should've known ole Sayid would be on top of it.

OK IM EXCITED TO BE ABLE TO BLOG HERE!!! LOST IS BECOMING REALLY GOOD. I THINK THAT SUN WILL GO BACK TO THE ISLAND BUT SHE WILL NEED MORE CONVINCING THEN HURLEY

OK... SO I WAS THINKING AND CONVERSING AND I REALIZE THAT ANYTHING THEY HAVE IN THERE HAND THEY CAN KEEP!! LIKE WHEN THEY TOOK THE BOAT AND THE PEOPLE BEHIND THEM WAS SHOOTING AT THEM AND THE BIG FLASH HAPPEN THEY WAS STILL IN THE BOAT. NOW IF THEY WERE IN TIME THE BOAT SHOULD OF WENT AWAY AS WELL COMPLETELY DROWNING THEM.

NOW IM FORCED TO BELIEVE THAT THEY CAN KEEP WHAT EVER THERE HANDS ARE ON! OH YEAH HOW COME EVERYONE HAS TO GO BACK TO THE ISLAND BUT WALT ?

PUHMBASTIC:

Tyrone, is that you?

There was at least a few minutes between when the explosion occurred and when the island warped. Maybe Jin jumped off the boat after the helicopter? (I'm trying to remember the series of events) Maybe he was thrown from the ship in the direction of the island by the force of the explosion and somehow managed to crawl onto some wreckage before passing out?

For all we know the radius extended to just a few feet from the boat.


The reason I bring up Walt is that he has been a significant character. Obviously we know about his abilities from Season 2/3. There was a reason the Others specifically wanted him. His appearance to Locke in the grave cemented his importance to the island. If nothing else, we might find him in Jacob's shack hanging out with Claire and DrunkDoc. I do agree with you, though, that they seem to have neglected his story line - it's very close to the inconvenience of the island monster which only appears when they want to explain something about it away.

Really? If you don't mind me asking, where did you hear this? Was it after he appeared to Locke?

I would imagine his role is significant, but I can't think of what it might be. His parents are dead. The only other black person on the island, outside of Rose who is no relation, is Ms. Klugh (is she alive?) - so, as far as blood relations go, she's his only link to the natives.

It's obvious that he did some damage while there, but I wonder to what extent he knows anything. I wonder if he'll appear, somehow, on the voyage back to the island.